Minecraft Access

New Features

• Support navigating and narrating on the config menu of the Cloth Config library, this provides support to the config menus of other mods that also use this library. (If you run into a mod's config menu that is built with Cloth that isn't accessible, report it as a bug)
• Add configuration setting to optionally enable fix for mouse simulation issues on MacOS.
• Added an Object Tracker. Find the changelog section on it below or learn more on the docs
• The mod will now announce when the HUD is hidden or shown with the F1 key
• New keybinding Control + Speak Player Status: Speak currently active effects
• Automatically speak gained and lost effects (when configuration option Enable Player Status is on)
• Additional entity poses are reported (E.G. swimming, gliding, sleeping) with a new config value (defaulted to true) to enable this functionality
• End Portal Frame blocks now report wether they have an eye of ender in them or not
• Added narration for titles and subtitles
• Made toasts (advancement, recipe unlock, system, and tutorial messages) narrated by the mod
• Added mod icon to resources so it will be properly displayed in mod management menu
• There is now a message when the credits are opened from the menu or after defeating the Ender Dragon
• Added a new config "Always Speak Picked Up Items" that extends the behavior found in fishing harvests to the rest of the game (defaulted to disabled)
• You can now scroll through old chat messages. View the keybinding docs for the commands
• You can now use alt + 0 or alt + numpad 0 to hear the 10th message on a chat page
• The mod will now say its version when starting up
• Player Status now reports the game mode when pressed
• The selected gamemode on the gamemode switcher (F3+F4) will now be narrated
• The narrator is now enabled by default
• Display Entities are now narrated and trackable in the object tracker (text, item, and block entities)
• Minecraft Access now works on Wayland on Linux without X11
• Minecraft Access now runs on Pojav Launcher on iOS

Feature Updates

• Cloth Config is now used for this mod's config menu, the location of the config menu is unchanged however, and remains in the Access Menu.
• New Features config category that contains on-off switches for some automatic features.
• Locking feature's speak relative distance config is deprecated. It has been replaced by a new setting that affects both the locking feature and the object tracker.
• Enforced client side loading of the mod instead of relying on our own detection
• Updated mod metadata files to properly depend on Architectury API and suggest Jade
• Changed the player warning sound to be less startling and tied to the player's sound source volume
• If numbers ended in .0, they will now be trimmed to exclude it
• Remove formatting codes from all narrations
• Player Status is now no longer available in Creative mode or Spectator mode to match sighted player's view
• Player Warnings no longer trigger in Creative mode or Spectator mode to match sighted player's view
• Some functions will no longer attempt to run if they are not relevant to the current game mode
• Ladders now have a POI group
• Portals now have a POI group
• You will now be able to see when you don't have enough lapis or levels when enchanting
• The XP information is no longer read in creative or spectator mode to match what sighted players see
• The blocks and entities POI range is now 24 blocks by default to better leverage the new object tracker
• Speak relative distance is now on by default to give the player more awareness when dealing with POIs in the object tracker
• Crop growth is now narrated as a percentage instead of ripeness

Others

• Moved docs to GitHub Pages, available at https://docs.mcaccess.org/
• The sound effects overview docs page now contains all sounds currently used by the mod
• The download and faq pages are no longer part of docs and have instead been moved to the landing page
• xdotool is no longer required on Linux
• The accessibility permission is no longer required on MacOS

Bug Fixes

• Fix mouse simulation issues on MacOS
• Fixed hotbar items not being spoken on the NeoForge platform
• Added back doors as POI objects
• Baby entities are now reported (even when they're not animals)
• Leashed entities are now reported (even when they're not animals)
• Entities no longer have to be tamed to be considered as sitting by the mod.
• If a number was at least plus or minus 10 million (like coordinates), it was improperly truncated
• All spoken numbers now correctly only narrate out to the first number after the decimal point if they are a decimal
• 12:00 AM is now correctly narrated when listening to the time with 12 hour format instead of 00:00 AM
• Fence gates will now narrate when open
• The checkbox widget is now narrated as "checkbox checked" or "checkbox unchecked", instead of "button"
• The mod will now narrate the new selected item in your hotbar, even if the previous slot you were on matches
• The mod will no longer apply mouse simulation while typing or while in the keybinds controls menu
• The log4j.xml dev configuration file will no longer be bundled in the production mod jar
• When using RIGHT ALT + CAMERA CONTROLS to snap to cardinal directions, the mod will no longer additionally move the camera in the direction of the pressed camera controls key
• Fixed enchanting table UI reading wrong enchantments
• Flite is no longer required to be installed on Linux
• The accessibility onboarding screen no longer speaks using the vanilla Minecraft voice instead of Minecraft Access
• Features are now initialized each time you join a world, meaning many issues can be resolved by rejoining the world
• Optimized the title screen by skipping all invalid in-game specific functions when you aren't in a world
• Narration of messages other than the initial initializing message are now suppressed when the game is not in focus
• Resolves a bug where the advancements key could remain bound preventing usage of the camera controls
• Mouse click positions should no longer be slightly off in MacOS
• Third-party mods like Jade that use narrateMessage will now speak with Minecraft Access instead of the vanilla narrator voice

Object tracker

Gives the player a better idea of what is around them and allows for controlling what other POI features like locking target. Keybinds:

• PGUP: previous object
• PGDOWN: next object
• CTRL + PGUP: previous group
• CTRL + PGDOWN: next group
• HOME: narrate current object
• END: target nearest object

Minecraft 1.21.5

This is the first release to support Minecraft 1.21.5